Many people have a fitness goal that they want to achieve.
You can achieve your goal if you follow these four simple steps.
1. Focus
Focus on one goal at a time, one month at a time.
To achieve a goal you will need to establish a new habit.
This will require consistent, attentive, new behavior.
One key is to make your new daily habit easy to achieve.
For example, if your goal is to get more consistent with your exercise routine
and you are currently exercising 3-days a week, set a goal to exercise an
additional 2-days per week and decide the times and days that you will exercise.
If your goal is to start an exercise program and you’re currently inactive,
set a goal to walk for 10-minutes everyday at __ am/pm.
Another example, if your goal is weight loss and you are currently not eating any
vegetables, set a goal to eat something green at dinner.
That’s all.
No mention of quantity.
By this definition, if you eat just one leaf of spinach everyday
for 30-days, you have succeeded with your goal.
Make your goal easy to achieve.
2. Write
Write down how you plan to achieve your goal.
What will you do everyday to guarantee your success?
What will be the daily “trigger event” that will put you on autopilot,
causing you to start your new daily habit pattern?
For example, last year I set a goal to go to a networking event everyday for
7-consecutive days and introduce myself to 20 new people – everyday.
My “trigger event” was eye contact.
If I made eye contact with anyone within arms reach,
that was my trigger to speak to that person.
It didn’t matter if I said “Hi” or delivered a reinterpretation of the Gettysburg address.
If I opened my mouth and stuttered, it counted.
The beauty of this system is that it takes thinking out of the way.
Goal achievement becomes automatic.
Now, if your goal is to eat something dark green or colorful (vegetables)
with dinner every night, your “trigger event” might be to remove a package
of frozen-mixed-vegetables (they’re more nutrient dense than “fresh”) and
prepare them for cooking as soon as the evening news comes on
or when you start to prepare your meal.
Decide what your daily goal and “trigger event” will be.
And remember, hoping is for sissies.
Make stuff happen.
3. Tell
Tell other people what your goal is.
However, only tell people who will support you and check up on you.
Downers and haters will try and pull you down. Don’t let ‘em.
I invite you to write your 30-day goal and your plan to achieve it in the forum
at http://bootcampfx.ning.com
You can post your results everyday.
Did you do what you planned to do for that day?
Make a choice and post your goal for everyone to see.
We will help you and hold you accountable.
Your daily goal should be simple and it should be easy to measure.
For example, if you set a goal to exercise for 10-minutes everyday,
at the end of the day, you either did or you did not.
This leads us to the final step.
4. Report
Record and report your results daily.
There is tremendous power in this. If you write your results for
just yourself to see, you will change for the better.
If you post your results for everyone to see, you will create ultimate life change.
You can record and report your results in the forum.
Write YES if you accomplished your daily goal and NO if you did not.
You CAN change your body and life. Start thinking more about how and why
you will succeed and less about any so called obstacles.
If you truly decide to succeed, nothing can stop you.
Decide to succeed.
Contact curtis.ludlow@gmail.com for
assistance in setting up your 4-step plan.
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